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KDiff3 version 0.9.70
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KDiff3-Readme
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Author: Joachim Eibl  ([e-mail])
Copyright: (C) 2002 by Joachim Eibl
KDiff3-Version: 0.81


KDiff3 is a program that
- compares two or three input files,
- shows the differences line by line and character by character (!),
- provides an automatic merge-facility and
- an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts
- and has an intuitive graphical user interface.


Licence:
    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2, June 1991
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

    For details see file "COPYING".


Requirements & Installation:
   Version 0.81 supports KDE2 and KDE3 but due to some problem with libkio and libkfile
   it was necessary to provide different packages for each, but only the configure
   script differs.

   For KDE2 you need
      - kdiff3-0.81_for_KDE2.tar.gz
      - KDE2 and QT2-libraries.
      - gcc, g++ with version >=2.95      
      
   For KDE3 you need
      - kdiff3-0.81_for_KDE3.tar.gz
      - KDE3 and QT3-libraries.
      - gcc, g++ with version >=2.95

Installation for KDE2:
   - Make sure your shell-variable QTDIR is correct. (echo $QTDIR).
     If it doesn't contain the correct path, type
        export QTDIR=your_path_to_qt  (e.g. /usr/lib/qt2)
   - Unpack the archive: tar xvfz kdiff3-0.81_for_KDE2.tar.gz
   - cd into the directory kdiff3-0.81 and type
   - ./configure --prefix=/opt/kde2
   - make
   - make install  (You must have root-rights for this step.)

Installation for KDE3:
   - Make sure your shell-variable QTDIR is correct. (echo $QTDIR).
     If it doesn't contain the correct path, type
        export QTDIR=your_path_to_qt  (e.g. /usr/lib/qt3)
   - Unpack the archive: tar xvfz kdiff3-0.81_for_KDE3.tar.gz
   - cd into the directory kdiff3-0.81 and type
   - ./configure --prefix=/opt/kde3
   - make
   - make install  (You must have root-rights for this step.)

   For details also see the generic instructions in file "INSTALL".
   
If some icons are not visible or don't seem right, probably the prefix
was wrong. Check where you're KDE2/3 installation is located and
use that directory with the prefix-option of configure.

   
Start from commandline:
- Comparing 2 files:     kdiff3 file1 file2
- Merging 2 files:       kdiff3 file1 file2 -o outputfile
- Comparing 3 files:     kdiff3 file1 file2 file3
- Merging 3 files:       kdiff3 file1 file2 file3 -o outputfile
     Note that file1 will be treated as base of file2 and file3.

If you start without arguments, then a dialog will appear where you can
select your files via a filebrowser.

For more documentation, see the help-menu or the subdirectory doc.

Have fun!